Where were the facts invalidated? Why can't a reader despise a writing style that LLMs converge towards?
I think you're right on your last point, btw, nobody will care and we'll be the poorer for it. Just like how McDonald's and Walmart have driven out and undercut localized taste and culture in the US, so it shall be with writing of all kinds. It's happening right now and readers are getting used to reading the intellectual equivalent of a Big Mac.
It's not even a matter of despising or liking the style, it's a matter of actually being able to interpret it and makes sense of it in a useful way. Even Claude sometimes gets confused by the dense metaphor-heavy obtuse Claude style.
True, but I don't know. I'm not going to gatekeep the transmission of information (how could anyone?) but there's a certain level of ennui here for me and the easiest tell comes from the writing style. I still think there would be something lost in "claude write me a blog, don't use load-bearing".
We invented algorithms and machines that ostensibly understand and interpret our words and can make things happen, which is a revolution of understanding. From a legibility perspective, these machines now can "understand" me just as well as if I were writing like Gene Wolfe, yet instead of embracing the idea of "wow I can talk to a computer" we have an overweight on "wow, I can have computer talk to everyone else on my behalf!".
Even if the transmission of information here was perfect I'd still question the utility of outsourcing your brain on writing a very short article compiled from release notes.
Do not engage. This thread is loaded with bicker-bait.
Apparently the readability of LLM prose seems to trigger stupid "tabs vs. spaces" style arguments. I encourage you to save your time and energy and do something productive with it instead.
Agree, bike shedding about something like writing style, which unlike tabs-vs-spaces, doesn't even have an objectively correct answer, is not productive.
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Where were the facts invalidated? Why can't a reader despise a writing style that LLMs converge towards?
I think you're right on your last point, btw, nobody will care and we'll be the poorer for it. Just like how McDonald's and Walmart have driven out and undercut localized taste and culture in the US, so it shall be with writing of all kinds. It's happening right now and readers are getting used to reading the intellectual equivalent of a Big Mac.
It's not even a matter of despising or liking the style, it's a matter of actually being able to interpret it and makes sense of it in a useful way. Even Claude sometimes gets confused by the dense metaphor-heavy obtuse Claude style.
True, but I don't know. I'm not going to gatekeep the transmission of information (how could anyone?) but there's a certain level of ennui here for me and the easiest tell comes from the writing style. I still think there would be something lost in "claude write me a blog, don't use load-bearing".
We invented algorithms and machines that ostensibly understand and interpret our words and can make things happen, which is a revolution of understanding. From a legibility perspective, these machines now can "understand" me just as well as if I were writing like Gene Wolfe, yet instead of embracing the idea of "wow I can talk to a computer" we have an overweight on "wow, I can have computer talk to everyone else on my behalf!".
Even if the transmission of information here was perfect I'd still question the utility of outsourcing your brain on writing a very short article compiled from release notes.
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At what point did I "invalidate facts"?
Do not engage. This thread is loaded with bicker-bait.
Apparently the readability of LLM prose seems to trigger stupid "tabs vs. spaces" style arguments. I encourage you to save your time and energy and do something productive with it instead.
Great advice, will do. I don't engage with HN a ton and I didn't realize this was the state of discourse on LLM prose.
Agree, bike shedding about something like writing style, which unlike tabs-vs-spaces, doesn't even have an objectively correct answer, is not productive.